Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years) than anyone before or since. At the U.N., the dashing diplomat is best remembered for his caustic oratory against the Soviet Union. In 1960, during the debate over the downing of an American U-2 intelligence plane over the Soviet Union, Lodge displayed in the Security Council a wooden plaque bearing the seal of the U.S. The plaque, which had hung for 15 years in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, turned out to be bugged. Later that year Lodge became Richard Nixon's running mate on the presidential ticket that lost to Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Lodge...
...freshmen who built the loft said neither the smoke alarm nor the sprinkler system is blocked by the wooden structure. The sprinkler and the smoke alarm are on the wall opposite the loft, they said...
Since the fall of 1983, Harvard has been quietly selling small wooden-framed houses to its teachers on a priority basis in order to offer faculty a chance to live closer to campus. By selling to owners who must occupy these homes, the University takes the property out from under the city's stringent rent control regulations and avoids paying double in property taxes...
...faced during the six-week trial, finally broke down and wept last week. Moments before, Judge Artur Kujawa had sentenced Piotrowski to 25 years in prison for the brutal murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko. As Kujawa dryly explained his conduct of the trial, Piotrowski dropped his head to the wooden railing of the dock and wept...
With the Big Red up 5-4, Paul Marcov lofted the puck up into Lynah's dimly-ht wooden rafters. Crimson netminder Grant Blair seemed to lose sight of the puck. It landed in the Crimson zone, where Mark Henderson scored what later proved to be the decisive goal. Harvard Coach Bill Cleary protested vehemently that Henderson was standing in the zone before the puck fell, and was thus offside. All to no avail...